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When Harold Lloyd hung from that clock I poo poo my pants, fainted, and got a concussion. Still don't know if he survived. Hollywoodland owes me a new pair of pants and a new brain.
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feedmyleg posted:That train ILLEGALLY came toward the camera Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory even though their shift hasn't ended yet.
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People love criminals. I don't know how else to look at it. Movies about heists and capers get lots of eyes on them, and guys like Tarantino have basically built their careers on "criminals are so cool!"
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AceOfFlames posted:I just don’t understand why a movie franchise revolving around a bunch of criminals is so popular. Crime is cool and good
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Samuel Clemens posted:Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory even though their shift hasn't ended yet. I assume they were referring to "The Story of the Kelly Gang" being regarded as the first feature length film.
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When the system is rigged, cheating's the only solution.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Crime is cool and good 
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:When Harold Lloyd hung from that clock I poo poo my pants, fainted, and got a concussion. Still don't know if he survived. Hollywoodland owes me a new pair of pants and a new brain. That man was trespassing!
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Who watches The Godfather and doesn't wish they could be Michael Corleone? Hannibal Lecter is a petty, arrogant, self-absorbed snob who murders people he considers beneath him but he's a character people love because Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen are charismatic.
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Apr 12, 2018 16:25
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Wheat Loaf posted:Who watches The Godfather and doesn't wish they could be Michael Corleone? I didnt. His life seems pretty stressful and has an extended sequence in Italy that while it conveys its point feels like it drags far too long which would bother me a lot if i ever wanted to reminisce.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:People love criminals. I don't know how else to look at it. Movies about heists and capers get lots of eyes on them, and guys like Tarantino have basically built their careers on "criminals are so cool!" We're not even getting into the fascination with the serial killer. Really, it's about freedom from these rules we've built for society. Even the times the main character is the police, half of the time they're a "loose cannon who gets results" like Dirty Harry, Riggs & Murtaugh, or Marion Cobretti; the other half they're some level of corruption they've been led to by circumstances like family. It's rare you have a beat cop that follows the law and regulations.
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Barudak posted:I didnt. His life seems pretty stressful and has an extended sequence in Italy that while it conveys its point feels like it drags far too long which would bother me a lot if i ever wanted to reminisce. I love the Italy sections because it feels like a Leone film.
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Young Freud posted:We're not even getting into the fascination with the serial killer. People are fascinated with Hannibal Lecter, but not so much Buffalo Bill or Francis Dolarhyde. Obviously, Lecter tends to be the most charismatic character, but he's also a kind of "idealised" serial killer (which is an odd thing to write) whereas the other two seem more realistic to me.
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Wheat Loaf posted:People are fascinated with Hannibal Lecter, but not so much Buffalo Bill or Francis Dolarhyde. Obviously, Lecter tends to be the most charismatic character, but he's also a kind of "idealised" serial killer (which is an odd thing to write) whereas the other two seem more realistic to me. The key(and very unrealistic) thing with Lecter is that he kills for a purpose. When he was free he killed and ate rude people. Well, we hate rudeness don't we? Deep down there's a part of us that roots for him to kill all of the rude assholes in the world. He of course is willing to kill those two guards to escape but obviously for him that would be considered a necessity. But that's why Clarice is unafraid of him, she knows that she was never rude to him and treated him with respect.
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Characters like Hannibal Lecter and Tony Montana pass the romanticism test because, although they are objectively repugnant, horrible people, they still have a code of ethics. Its heavily skewed of course, but there is still a moral compass in their lawlessness (Lecters offense at Miggs assault on Clarice, Tonys no women no kids mantra).
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The FF movies are good but in a better world Torque would be the movie inexplicably getting it's eighth big-budget sequel. Also Blumhouse's steez would be based on Detention instead of Insidious.AceOfFlames posted:I just don’t understand why a movie franchise revolving around a bunch of criminals is so popular. One of the highest-grossing films of last year was about an anti-government terrorist group suicide bombing the military so they could broadcast a recruitment video to the populace and the Best Picture was about a participant in a Russian espionage op killing a bunch of soldiers and gmen to steal state secrets.
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Cooked Auto posted:I dunno, I saw the American remake of District 13 with him in the lead a while ago on Netflix and it was close to unwatchable. Watch Running Scared and come back. He can play a great scumbag, and he's a good physical actor. e: more people should be talking about Running Scared. e2: Blade_of_tyshalle posted:People love criminals. I don't know how else to look at it. Movies about heists and capers get lots of eyes on them, and guys like Tarantino have basically built their careers on "criminals are so cool!" In any time, in any era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odessa_Tales Shageletic fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:People love criminals. I don't know how else to look at it. Movies about heists and capers get lots of eyes on them, and guys like Tarantino have basically built their careers on "criminals are so cool!" I think Tarantino undercuts it a lot (e.g. Vincent being a incompetent idiot and Jules giving up his life of crime in Pulp Fiction) which is something a lot of his imitators miss in favour of badass hitmen who quip at each other.
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Reservoir Dogs is basically a movie about a team of incompetent, petulant assholes who completely implode when their Big Bold Plan goes an inch sideways.
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Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Josh Trank's new film (yes, that Josh Trank!)
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He's back baby.
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Tom Hardy as Vito Corleone.
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I think De Niro is my favourite Capone. What are the other good portrayals to check out?
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Tars Tarkas posted:Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Josh Trank's new film (yes, that Josh Trank!) Ted Levine biopic lookin lit
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Tars Tarkas posted:Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Josh Trank's new film (yes, that Josh Trank!) A little soon for a Mickey Rourke biopic
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think De Niro is my favourite Capone. Edit: An episode that also stars a really young Jeffrey Wright. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Boardwalk Empire has my favorite Al Capone.
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Vegetable posted:Boardwalk Empire has my favorite Al Capone. Stephen Graham was excellent but given barely anything to do.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think Tarantino undercuts it a lot (e.g. Vincent being a incompetent idiot and Jules giving up his life of crime in Pulp Fiction) which is something a lot of his imitators miss in favour of badass hitmen who quip at each other. Imitators nothing, even people who consider themselves serious film buffs love to  about how Tarantino is some dumb clod who loves violence for violence's sake and is a hack with zero depth or message. Even better if they also hated Inglourious Basterds and Hateful 8 because it was "boring".
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Stephen Graham was a great Capone in Boardwalk Empire. But that show was full of amazing supporting actors that they went out of their way to sideline.
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Casimir Radon posted:Other than Nicholas Turturro in an episode of Young Indiana Jones, DeNiro is the only portrayal I know of. Oh, yeah, Jeffrey Wright was Sidney Bechet in that. Taught Indiana Jones how to play jazz. He also teamed up with his old friend from the war, Ernest Hemingway, and his college roommate, Eliot Ness, in that one. I wish there had been more "Indiana Jones: The College Years" episodes than there were "Indiana Jones: The War Years" episodes.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Josh Trank's new film (yes, that Josh Trank!) Oh cool a new Dick Tracy movie.
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LesterGroans posted:Stephen Graham was a great Capone in Boardwalk Empire. But that show was full of amazing supporting actors that they went out of their way to sideline. Still peeved that they skipped to '33 for the final season and thus robbed us of a big sendoff for Michael Stuhlbarg's Rothstein.
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JethroMcB posted:Still peeved that they skipped to '33 for the final season and thus robbed us of a big sendoff for Michael Stuhlbarg's Rothstein. Such a baffling decision. I'm pretty sure the last season alone made me hate the whole show retroactively.
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Casimir Radon posted:The Expendables but nowhere near as stupid, oh and actually fun. i dont care much about the first two but expendables 3 is an absolute masterpiece
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Quick reminder that in The Expendables 2, JCVD plays the villain, and his name is Vilain.
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I wanna be Tony Montana because he dies in the end.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I wanna be Tony Montana because he dies in the end. Good news friend, we all will.
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Every day I'm a little happier I never watched more than 20 minutes of Boardwalk Empire.
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LesterGroans posted:Such a baffling decision. I'm pretty sure the last season alone made me hate the whole show retroactively. It's especially baffling because Rothstein's death was a bit of a mystery, the guy they assume ordered it was acquitted and Rothstein himself refused to identify anyone on his deathbed. They could've gone hog wild with it, and built an entire season long arch around it.
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